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S&S Nabs Bestselling Self-Published Series Wool
Simon & Schuster has acquired North American rights to Hugh Howey's self-published science fiction series, Wool.
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The Bestselling Self-Published Kindle Books of 2012
Fifteen e-books with self-publishing origins are in Amazon’s Kindle top 100 overall for 2012.
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Tracking Amazon: Self-Pubbed Romance Sales Fall Following Penguin Sale
Samantha Young's On Dublin Street spent weeks atop Amazon's Kindle chart, which culminated in a seven-figure sale to Penguin earlier this month.
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Geragotelis, S&S Prepare to Release 'Life's a Witch' Prequel
Brittany Geragotelis, who landed a three-book, six-figure deal with S&S after a PW story about her self-published YA debut, Life's a Witch, will publish a prequel with S&S, called What The Spell.
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Penguin Divisions Team Up to Buy Self-Pubbed Bestseller 'Easy'
In an acquisition that brings together two Penguin imprints, Berkley Books and Penguin Young Readers Group have jointly acquired Tammara Webber's self-published novel Easy.
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PW Select October 2012: All Our Coverage
The latest news on self-publishing, plus more than 40 new book reviews.
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PW Select October 2012: The Reviews
This month's installment of PW Select self-published print and e-books.
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Self-Publishing for ‘Dangerous Women’
Kim Krizan is an Academy Award–nominated screenwriter (with Richard Linklater, for Before Sunset), a popular graphic novel writer (Zombie Tales: 2061), and an actress who has appeared in three Linklater films: Dazed and Confused, Slacker, and Waking Life. In addition to all the Hollywood glitter, Krizan’s got literary/academic chops as well: she’s an Anaïs Nin expert with a master’s degree in literature (her thesis examined the psychology of creativity).
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DIY Titles: More and More E-books
With our eighth PW Select we complete two years of quarterly presentations of self-published titles and reviews. As of next year, PW Select will appear bimonthly, that is, six times a year, beginning in February.
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Robin Lamont: Help Along the Way
“The biggest challenge in self-publishing is marketing. Anyone can create a book and get it up on Amazon. Getting it to sell, as anyone in the book industry knows, is another story.”
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If You Build it, Will They Listen?
The improbable idea was this: Jack Reacher in sex therapy. The notion that the towering and tacit ex-MP, the creation of crime writer Lee Child, would submit to such an exhibition is at best completely out of character.
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Self-Styled Successes
It's always heartening – for writers hoping to get published, editors on the lookout for new talent, and anyone appreciative of a happy ending – to hear tales of self-published writers landing contracts with well-known publishers. Spotlighted here are a quartet of children’s authors, each of whose success stories has its distinctive twist – and happy ending.
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Check It Out with Nancy Pearl: Libraries and Self-Published Books
Q: From a University of Washington I-School colleague of Nancy’s comes this great topic for discussion: how libraries collect self-published materials. One of the students in that colleague’s class asked: “How do public library selectors who rely primarily on vendor lists and professional pre-publication book reviews find out about the growing number of self-published materials? Is it possible to give the same credence to a book whose content, ideas, or writing style may not have been reviewed except by the author and has not been through the editing and publishing process?”
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Tracking Amazon: Self-Published Author Freethy Rises
A number of e-books by Barbara Freethy, the self-published romance author, saw a big increase in sales as the release of her newest, When Wishes Collide, approaches on August 23.
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Tracking Amazon: Self-Published McGuire Gets Rereleased by Atria
Bestselling self-published romance author Jamie McGuire had signed a two-book deal with Atria, and her e-book Beautiful Disaster has reappeared on the Kindle bestseller list at #17.
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PW Select July 2012: All Our Coverage
All of the stories from the July 2012 PW Select supplement, a quarterly guide to what's new in the self-publishing industry. This edition includes 45 book reviews (including seven stars), listings for 184 new books, two author profiles, and analysis of a Bowker study about what sells best in the self-publishing market.
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PW Select July 2012: Reviews
Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction and Children's self-published titles from this round of PW Select submissions.
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PW Select July 2012: Announcement Listings
Our seventh PW Select features listings of 184 titles recently self-published, and our editors have chosen 45 for full PW reviews. For the first time, more than one title has merited a starred review—five, in fact: Dan Handfield’s novel, Touchback, based on the movie he wrote and directed, starring Kurt Russell; John Montandon’s “gentle memoir” about his father, a Texas farmer infected with AIDS; a memoir of Southern life “straight out of a Flannery O’Connor story,” by John Snyder; a POW tale by Ralph Poness; and Sondra Bernstein’s gorgeous cookbook, Plats du Jour—see our interview with Bernstein.
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PW Select July 2012: Rachel Abbot: My Bestselling Story
I remember vividly the moment I decided to become an independently, or, some would say, self-published author. I wish I could say it was a eureka moment, but it wasn’t. While browsing the Web last October, I discovered an article that said I could now publish in the Kindle Direct Publishing program. In the beginning, Amazon’s Kindle publishing program was restricted to U.S. bank account holders only, and I am a U.K. citizen now living in Italy. But with that barrier removed, I thought, “Why not?”
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PW Select July 2012: Sondra Bernstein: A Recipe for Self-Publishing
Chef and restaurateur Sondra Bernstein didn’t plan on self-publishing her second cookbook, Plats du Jour: The girl & the fig’s Journey Through the Seasons in Wine Country, but, in the end, found that the DIY approach gave her complete control over the project—and this, she says, was a great relief.
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